China's melting glaciers

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Glaciers in the Tian Mountains in western China are melting because of global warming. Jonathan Watts went to see how this affects local people
Up close, the sound of global warming at the face of the Urumqi No1 Glacier is a simple, steady drip, drip, drip. Just 30 metres from the main wall, the flood of meltwater becomes so powerful that it cuts a tunnel under the floor of grey ice, leaving only a blotchy, wafer-thin crust on the surface.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/25/glaciers.climatechange